A novel congestion-aware interest flooding attacks detection mechanism in named data networking

Ahmed Benmoussa, Abdou el Karim Tahari, Nasreddine Lagaa, Abderrahmane Lakas, Farhan Ahmad, Rasheed Hussain, Chaker Abdelaziz Kerrache, Fatih Kurugollu

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Abstract

Named Data Networking (NDN) is a promising candidate for future internet architecture. It is one of the implementations of the Information-Centric Networking (ICN) architectures where the focus is on the data rather than the owner of the data. While the data security is assured by definition, these networks are susceptible of various Denial of Service (DoS) attacks, mainly Interest Flooding Attacks (IFA). IFAs overwhelm an NDN router with a huge amount of interests (Data requests). Various solutions have been proposed in the literature to mitigate IFAs; however; these solutions do not make a difference between intentional and unintentional misbehavior due to the network congestion. In this paper, we propose a novel congestion-aware IFA detection and mitigation solution. We performed extensive simulations and the results clearly depict the efficiency of our proposal in detecting truly occurring IFA attacks.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationICCCN 2019 - 28th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781728118567
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jul 2019
Event28th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, ICCCN 2019 - Valencia, Spain
Duration: Jul 29 2019Aug 1 2019

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, ICCCN
Volume2019-July
ISSN (Print)1095-2055

Conference

Conference28th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, ICCCN 2019
Country/TerritorySpain
CityValencia
Period7/29/198/1/19

Keywords

  • Denial of Service
  • Interest Flooding Attack
  • Named Data Networking
  • Network congestion

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Software

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